Making Sense of The MeK
Quite simply, the MeK believes that, after forty years of active resistance, it has more “skin in the game” than any other personality or faction in the struggle against the Islamic Republic.
Quite simply, the MeK believes that, after forty years of active resistance, it has more “skin in the game” than any other personality or faction in the struggle against the Islamic Republic.
Marcist students vanish before May Day;
Venezuela uses Chinese vehicles to quash protests;
Pakistan arrests Chinese citizens for human trafficking;
China's digital serfs rise up;
Sichuan teachers protests over poor pay
Ex-CIA agent turned Chinese spy pleads guilty;
Pentagon: China to build overseas bases to protect BRI;
Beijing makes moves in the Arctic;
Wikipedia now banned in all languages;
China's role in the F-35
North Korea's deforestation problem;
A global measles outbreak;
Namibia's far-reaching drought
The true cost of Crimea;
Taking the Russian nuclear threat seriously;
The futility of Russian life;
A long-awaited commemoration;
A bridge too far on user data
Not since the Mao era has the developing world played a larger role in China’s geostrategy.
The Dictator Demise study was conducted in association with Post Putin: Seccession, Stability, and Russia's Future by Herman Pirchner and a condensed version is found in that book's appendix (referenced therein as the Azinheira study).
What shape will Russia take in ten years?;
Russia's military-religious complex;
Capitol Hill weighs increased security assistance to Ukraine;
No leniency for election activist
[T]he United States should be aware of key adversarial developments such as Russia’s emerging unmanned, autonomous, and AI capabilities, and prepare itself in terms of appropriate capabilities, tactics, and plans.
Turkish democracy isn’t dead. That was the central message behind this past weekend‘s rerun of the mayoral election in Turkey’s famous city, Istanbul.
In Yekaterinburg, a rare victory for popular opinion;
Development gap plagues Russia's largest cities;
Hospitals targeted by Damascus, Moscow;
Is Russia violating the CTBT?;
Kremlin pressure skews polling
Sitting ducks in Syria;
How ISIS plotted to penetrate the U.S.;
Turkey spreads its ideaology abroad;
ISIS expands in Afghanistan;
...and rears its head in Kashmir
The Case for Keeping the INF Treaty
Planning for Arms Control Failure
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Modernization: What and Why
The Advent of Hypersonic Weapons: Implications and Challenges for Congress, the Defense Department, and Industry
Back to the Future of Missile Defense
President Trump’s opportunity at next week’s G-20 summit to reset U.S. relations with close allies is a particularly timely one, for it comes as Washington suffers the downsides of its frayed relations in connection with one of its biggest global challenges of the moment — its rising tensions with Iran.
By now, there is ample evidence that last week's attack on two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz was the work of the Iranian regime, as the Trump administration has alleged.
Massive corruption plagues Russian industries;
Dirty oil contaminates Russia's image;
Kommersant reeling in free speech crisis;
The Duma condones official insults
Responding to Tehran's tanker mischief;
Playing good cop/bad cop with Tehran;
A deal with Russia over Iran?;
Tajikistan tilts back toward the Islamic Republic
Is the long-running civil war in Libya winding to a close? The Libyan National Army (LNA) and its larger-than-life leader, Gen. Khalifa Haftar, seem to think so.
Corruption in the FSB;
A rapprochement with Europe on human rights?;
Sabotage in Eastern Europe;
Russia's electorate feels silenced
During its first half-year in office, the Trump administration actively flirted with the idea that it might be possible, under the proper conditions, to “flip” the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin and get it to support American attempts to pressure Tehran.
Russia's agencies pose tempting cyber targets;
Islamic State funder detained;
More on the Kremlin-church connection;
Russia versus the rap game;
Russia buzzes the Arctic, again
Russia's agencies pose tempting cyber targets;
Islamic State funder detained;
More on the Kremlin-church connection;
Russia versus the rap game;
Russia buzzes the Arctic, again
For Hamas, necessity is the mother of invention;
ISIS rears its head in Russia's hinterlands;
Afghan Islamists versus education;
Extreme Islam on the rise at Indonesia's universities;
Religious reform, Saudi style
Is behavioral change in Tehran possible without regime change?
Getting serious about Iran's influence in Syria;
Wheither Iran's proxy network;
Back to business as usual in Gaza;
Child marragiages remain popular in Iran;
Amid mounting economic hardship, regime corruption continues
Later this month, unless it is delayed by Israel's current political turmoil, the Trump administration will start rolling out its long awaited, much-debated plan for Mideast peace.
Human rights abuses continue in Chechnya;
Montenegro coup plot thickens;
The church as a tool of Kremlin policy;
More data on the scope of Russian disinformation;
An A2/AD bubble over the Arctic
Belatedly, some new attention to Xi's party line;
India backs out of the SCS energy game...;
...while Beijing deepends its stake there;
The high price of veteran protests;
Malaysia to revive major China-linked property project
Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has turned up the heat on Tehran. Way up. A
Russia's winged anti-drone shotgun;
Pondering Iron Man potential;
Taking C-RAMs further;
China's drone ship;
Russia reconsiders AI regulation
How Moscow is solidifying its hold on Easter Ukraine;
Russian internet to become a reality;
Moscow calling;
Letters from Lefortovo;
Blocking Moscow's Artic maneuvers
“Every year, we hear that this is the worst year ever for U.S.-Turkish relations,” a prominent Turkish academic wryly remarked to me last month during my visit to the country. “This year, they might be right.”
Debating a brotherhood blacklisting;
China targets Uighur mosques;
Will Sudan continue to cling to Islamism?;
Tajik prison riot: Unrest, or terror?;
A positive side effect of Trump's Iran strategy
Since 2002, the Justice & Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, or AKP) has decisively dominated national politics in Turkey.
Washington cannot afford to cede dominance over this important technology to Beijing.
Russians vote with their feet;
A kinder view of Stalin;
Russia's underwater military modernization;
Buting into the "belt and road";
Butina ruling risks Russian retaliation
Mr. Pirchner’s little book provides a good summary of the main political events of post-communist Russia, many that we have already forgotten.
Hypersonic weapons are coming online just as the United States shifts its focus back to great power competition as its most pressing national security threat.
Russia's 6th generation fighter weaponry;
EMP on the radar...finally;
The Pentagon eyes space-based defense;
China's commercial missle force
City authorities say the planned system will have access to all 160,000 existing cameras.
Browder in the Kremlin's crosshairs yet again;
How the Kremlin intimidates the media;
How Russia gets rich off stolen info;
The Kremlin strenthens its hold on the Donbas;
Russia steps softly in post-war Syria;
Moscow eyes Trump's zero tolerance Iran policy
Washington cannot afford to let rival powers divide America along partisan lines.
U.S.-Taiwan talks to counter China's influence;
China's naval moves cause tempers to flare in Manila;
F-16 sales to Taiwan on hold while Trump seeks China trade deal;
Taiwan's President visits Hawaii
China clamps down on foreign websites
A new low for Russia-NATO relations;
Reviving the Komsomol;
Holding the line in Caracas;
Russia's still-booming bootleg industry;
Mr. Kim goes to Vladivostok
A Kenyan-Somali oil conflict;
South Sudan's looming famine;
Seeking clarity in the South China Sea;
The grisly business of blood diamonds
Iran's war on Christianity;
Microsoft moves again Iranian hackers;
Iran's imploding economy;
Tehran seeks Gulf wargames
Russia's military goes to the movies;
Russian radicals and America's alt-right;
A different kind of disinformation;
The Kremlin versus the World-Wide Web
Now in apparent robust health, Russian President Vladimir Putin (age 66) could remain in power for another decade or even longer.
China seeks stolen car tech;
China, Bangladesh tightens political ties;
China's elder population continues to grow;
U.S. universities steer clear of Chinese telecoms
Earlier this spring, an invitation-only briefing on Capitol Hill gave congressional attendees a disturbing glimpse into a high-tech research race that is spawning dangerous new weapons, delivery systems, and supporting technologies. It is a contest where China is forging ahead, shrugging off suggestions of restraint.